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
- NLnetDeep Cut85points
- NMS TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- NMSURFDeep Cut85points
- No Limits Internet SolutionsDeep Cut85points
- No OneDeep Cut85points
- Noakhali Broadband NetworkDeep Cut85points
- NoaNetDeep Cut85points
- NocTel FiberDeep Cut85points
- Noculos SystemsDeep Cut85points
- Node1 InternetDeep Cut85points
- Node4Deep Cut85points
- Nodo50Deep Cut85points
- Noel CommunicationDeep Cut85points
- Noetsu Cable NetDeep Cut85points
- Noize CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- NOLA BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Nomad AirDeep Cut85points
- Nomad InternetDeep Cut85points
- Noonan Farmers TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- NoorDeep Cut85points
- Noor TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Noralta TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- Norby TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Norcom 2000Deep Cut85points
- Nordic TelecomDeep Cut85points
- NordLinksDeep Cut85points
- NordnetDeep Cut85points
- NORDUnetDeep Cut85points
- Norfolk TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Norilsk-TelecomDeep Cut85points
- NorlysDeep Cut85points
- Noroc BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Norrlands BredbandDeep Cut85points
- Norsjö BredbandDeep Cut85points
- Norstar EnterprisesDeep Cut85points
- NortexDeep Cut85points
- North Alabama Electric Co-opDeep Cut85points
- North Atlantic NetworksDeep Cut85points
- North Bengal OnlineDeep Cut85points
- North Branch NetworksDeep Cut85points
- North Central CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- North Central Telephone CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- North Coast InternetDeep Cut85points
- North Coast Wireless CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- North Country CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- North Country Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- North Dakota Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- North East FiberDeep Cut85points
- North East Ontario TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- North English Cooperative Telephone CompanyDeep 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.