When I create a production site, such as example.com, I create a local instance at example.com.local (which I define in my HOSTS file and vhosts.conf). After I pull from production, the URL is "translated" as example.com.local.local in the theme mods DB entry in wp_options. I tried with example.com.home and got the same results. Interestingly, the value for the string length is correct - that is, it represents the length of the correct domain, rather than the length of the domain that is actually written to the DB.
When I create a production site, such as example.com, I create a local instance at example.com.local (which I define in my HOSTS file and vhosts.conf). After I pull from production, the URL is "translated" as example.com.local.local in the theme mods DB entry in wp_options. I tried with example.com.home and got the same results. Interestingly, the value for the string length is correct - that is, it represents the length of the correct domain, rather than the length of the domain that is actually written to the DB.