Krillion 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
- Northland Telephone Company of VermontDeep Cut85points
- NorthPoint CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- NorthsatDeep Cut85points
- NorthStream FiberDeep Cut85points
- Northwest Communications (Iowa)Deep Cut85points
- Northwest Communications (Wisconsin)Deep Cut85points
- Northwest Communications CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- Northwest Missouri CellularDeep Cut85points
- Northwest Ohio BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Northwest Telephone & Data ResourcesDeep Cut85points
- NorthwestelDeep Cut85points
- Northwestern Indiana Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- NorthWind WirelessDeep Cut85points
- NorvadoDeep Cut85points
- Norway TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Norwood Light BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- NOSDeep Cut85points
- NourNetDeep Cut85points
- Nova (Greece)Deep Cut85points
- Nova (Iceland)Deep Cut85points
- Nova CablevisionDeep Cut85points
- Nova EnergyDeep Cut85points
- Nova TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Nova1netDeep Cut85points
- NovaVisionDeep Cut85points
- NovusDeep Cut85points
- Novus NetworkDeep Cut85points
- NOW BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- NOW NZDeep Cut85points
- Now TelecomDeep Cut85points
- NOWLC-NET COOPERATIVEDeep Cut85points
- NownuriDeep Cut85points
- NowoDeep Cut85points
- Noxapater Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Nreach NetDeep Cut85points
- Nsight TelservicesDeep Cut85points
- NSM SolutionDeep Cut85points
- NSTNDeep Cut85points
- NT SparkDeep Cut85points
- NTA (Marshall Islands)Deep Cut85points
- NtecDeep Cut85points
- NtelDeep Cut85points
- nTelosDeep Cut85points
- NTERADeep Cut85points
- NTInetDeep Cut85points
- NTS CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- NTT FiberDeep Cut85points
- NTT PlalaDeep Cut85points
- NTTPC CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- NTUA WirelessDeep 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.