Many domain extensions are beginning to support Internationalized Domain Names which support character sets such as Chinese, Arabic, Cyrillic, or any other characters outside the US-centric ASCII characters.
See https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/idns for more details.
ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is the most common character encoding format for text data in computers and on the internet.
In standard ASCII-encoded data, there are unique values for 128 alphabetic, numeric or special additional characters and control codes.
