We're all good. My post above is the proper to use Pi-hole with Netgear routers.

Set your Netgear's router DNS servers to something external, like 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1. If you try an internal IP address like I was doing (192.168.1.2) Netgear causes an infinite look or something. Basically, it's broken.
Disable DHCP on your Netgear router.
Enable DHCP on Pi-hole.
Done.

Follow those steps above and everything works as it should. I can run an IPCONFIG /ALL command in Windows Command Prompt and I see 192.168.1.2 is being used at the DHCP server and the DNS server 👍

The steps above mentioned by hyma and "associating the server's MAC address along with the local IP address you assigned" are not needed and clearly do not make sense. There are no servers involved, so I don't know what hyma is trying to say.

Part of the setup process with Pi-hole is setting your Raspberry Pi to have a static IP. I'm not mentioning all these steps, because if you already have your Pi-hole up and running you know that you should have done all these steps prior.

Thread can be closed. Issue resolved.

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