Recorded answers
8,187 recorded answers
How to approach it
Memory does the work here rather than deduction, so sweep the whole market instead of chasing a riddle. Any company that has ever sold a connection, whether a modem, a fibre line or a SIM card, deserves a place on your list. Begin with a couple of household giants to get moving, then deliberately leave them behind. Walk the alphabet in blocks, since the underlying register is enormous and sorted, and odd initials still hide real entries. Think of municipal utilities, member-owned cooperatives, campus research networks, wireless outfits covering a single valley, and carriers selling only mobile plans. Defunct dial-up brands and merged labels count as well, and every continent appears somewhere in the register. Keep writing until nothing else surfaces, because volume, not fame, is what pays.
Get a hint
Start from the names printed on advertising hoardings and monthly bills, then deliberately move away from them towards the rest of the market.
A little more
Much of the register consists of small regional outfits: member-owned cooperatives, municipal utilities and wireless providers covering a single county or valley.
One step further
The list spans every continent and runs alphabetically to the last letter, so niche local carriers, long-dead dial-up brands and mobile-only operators all qualify.
Reveal answers 8,187
- Arin TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Aristotle.NetDeep Cut85points
- ArivacaDeep Cut85points
- Arizona NetworkDeep Cut85points
- Arkaden BredbandDeep Cut85points
- Arkansas Rural Internet ServiceDeep Cut85points
- Arkansas Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Arkwest CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Arlington Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- ArmincoDeep Cut85points
- Armour Independent Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- ArnaDeep Cut85points
- ARNESDeep Cut85points
- Aroostook TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- ArpinetDeep Cut85points
- Arqiva WiFiDeep Cut85points
- ArrakisDeep Cut85points
- Arrow Business CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Arrow GroupDeep Cut85points
- Arrow NetDeep Cut85points
- Arrowhead Communications CorporationDeep Cut85points
- Arrowhead CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- Arrowsic Broadband AuthorityDeep Cut85points
- Arroyo Seco InternetDeep Cut85points
- Ars-InformDeep Cut85points
- ARSATDeep Cut85points
- ARTERIA NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Arthur Mutual TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- ArubaDeep Cut85points
- ArvigDeep Cut85points
- Arx WebDeep Cut85points
- Aryaka NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Aryan TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- Asagao TVDeep Cut85points
- ASAHI NetDeep Cut85points
- Asahikawa Cable TVDeep Cut85points
- Asan Network ServicesDeep Cut85points
- ASAP InternetDeep Cut85points
- Ascend CommunicationDeep Cut85points
- Ascent BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Ascent NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Ashford FibreDeep Cut85points
- Ashland Fiber NetworkDeep Cut85points
- Ashton WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Asia Pacific CommunicationDeep Cut85points
- Asia Pacific TelecomDeep Cut85points
- AsiacellDeep Cut85points
- AsiainfoDeep Cut85points
- Asian VisionDeep Cut85points
- Asianet BroadbandDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Payout follows agreement, so the more entrants who type the same name, the smaller the reward becomes. A lone novelty entry, The World (ISP), collected the full 100 points, while the bulk of accepted answers settled at 85 and a thinner 60-point band caught names that plenty of players reached for at once. Everything in that middle tier, from 012 Smile and 019 Mobile to 1&1, 4fast.net and 123NET, sat on the record yet was shared by comparatively few people, which is why it paid close to the ceiling. Obscurity therefore beats fame: household brands that anyone can type within seconds bunch together near the bottom, whereas a carrier only a few hundred people could recall still earns almost full marks. Digit-led labels are unusually productive here, since whole stretches of the register are alphabetised that way and hardly anybody thinks to try them. Patient recall across the entire alphabet, instead of the first famous provider that springs to mind, separates the top band from the rest.