Let's go over the site-building history of the Star Sea Archive.

I founded the Starry Sea Archive in my third year of holding the qingdu.wang domain, which was 2020. At that time, the Starry Sea Archive was still called STSM.QINGDU, meaning Qingdu Time-Space Museum.
As for the qingdu.wang domain, it's quite interesting—its corresponding name is Qingdu Net. Qingdu is the legendary city where the Heavenly Emperor resides, also known as Qionglou Yuyu, which is the very Qionglou Yuyu from Su Shi's line in *Prelude to Water Melody: When Will the Moon Be Bright?*: "I want to ride the wind and return, yet I fear the jade towers and jeweled palaces." It sounds quite lofty.
However, I'm a person who easily tires of the old and craves the new when it comes to domains. Back then, most domains others registered were mainstream ones like .com/.net/.cn, while mine, though easy to remember, was not very mainstream and not exactly friendly in length.
So I started browsing domain registrars again to find a satisfactory domain. I began searching for a more universal prefix.
Later, I settled on thename, meaning "name," and started searching.
Among a row of domains, those with com/net/cn suffixes were already registered, and only one with the commonly called long tail suffix .com.cn was still unregistered. I checked the price—29 yuan per year, which was fairly friendly—and immediately chose to register it.
Just like that, qingdu.wang was successfully abandoned by me until it expired and was released, while thename.com.cn became the new domain for STSM.QINGDU. But at this point, I thought, since the domain has been changed, why not also change the website name?
Then I thought of the Jixia Academy, the representative of open academia in ancient times, and changed the website name to "The Name of Jixia," to commemorate this legendary institution of over two thousand years.
Not long after doing this, I felt that the thename.com.cn domain was really too long—even if easy to remember, it wasn't convenient enough.
Then I started searching on domain registration platforms for a suffix that would allow registering a short domain.
Before long, I found the .ac.cn suffix. This suffix is China's research domain administered by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is a second-level suffix, just like .com.cn/.net.cn/.org.cn/.gov.cn—a category suffix under the .cn domain. The number of domains registered under it is not large, which means I could register the short domain I wanted with this suffix.
At first, I wanted to register tn.ac.cn, but later discovered that ta.ac.cn was also unregistered. For some unknown reason, I inexplicably took a liking to this domain, so I registered it and officially changed the domain of The Name of Jixia from thename.com.cn to ta.ac.cn.
Then came the step of changing the website name again. I thought about it—ta could be understood as Time Academy, and conveniently ac is also the abbreviation of academic, so I changed the website name from The Name of Jixia to Time Academy.
This renaming turned a very pleasant name into one that was both utterly ordinary and confusing.
Later still, I finally felt this name was very awkward, so I changed the meaning of ta in the domain from Time Academy to Time Archive, meaning Time Archive.
Perhaps the name thename is deeply fated with me. Within two months, I偶然 learned from the domain registrar that the holder of the thename.cn domain had actually given up holding it, and the domain was reopened for registration. So I immediately grabbed thename.cn.
The thename.cn domain can be understood as The Name of China, with the Chinese name 中华之名. Of course, I think the name "中华之名" is really too ostentatious. When I acquired the domain and established the community, I did not name it "中华之名网," but instead took its abbreviation homophone: "花名," calling it "花名网," while the English name remained The Name of China unchanged.
Afterward, I also acquired the huar.net domain and have held it together with thename.cn to this day. Huar is the pinyin of the erhua sound of "花儿" in Chinese, so holding huar.net is truly most appropriate.
By 2024, in March of this year, I decided to put all my websites on the right track, so I applied to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology for ICP filing and to the Ministry of Public Security for public network security filing, and successfully completed the filings.
Based on this background, I decided to merge all my projects under one domain, and the Time Archive, as my most core project, was naturally included.
Since only one domain can be filed at a time, I chose huar.net between huar.net and thename.cn. I used the subdomain archive.huar.net as the official domain for the archive and officially renamed it 花名星海档案馆, with the full name 中华之名星辰大海档案馆. There's no other reason—just because huar.net is shorter.
The reason it's called 花名星海档案馆 is that this project collects a wide range of content, giving a feeling of encompassing the stars and seas, hence the name Starry Sea Archive. And because it ultimately belongs to 花名网 (The Name of China), it is called 花名星海档案馆.