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
- Paladin WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Palm Coast FiberNETDeep Cut85points
- Palmer Mutual Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Palmerton TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Palmetto Rural Telephone CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- Palmetto Telephone CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Palo Cooperative Telephone AssociationDeep Cut85points
- PalTelDeep Cut85points
- Pan M TechDeep Cut85points
- PANARCTIC COMMUNICATIONSDeep Cut85points
- Panasonic AvionicsDeep Cut85points
- PANGAEA InternetDeep Cut85points
- PanixDeep Cut85points
- Panora TelcoDeep Cut85points
- PanOrionDeep Cut85points
- Pantechnicon CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Paradise TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- Paradise.netDeep Cut85points
- Paragon InternetDeep Cut85points
- Paragould Light Water and CableDeep Cut85points
- Parallax SystemsDeep Cut85points
- ParasatDeep Cut85points
- ParatusDeep Cut85points
- ParbonetDeep Cut85points
- Parish CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Park Region Mutual TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Parker FiberNetDeep Cut85points
- ParlemDeep Cut85points
- Pars OnlineDeep Cut85points
- ParsnetDeep Cut85points
- Particle CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- PartnerDeep Cut85points
- Partner Communications CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- Pascua Yaqui NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Pason SystemsDeep Cut85points
- Pastel (Peter Raimondo)Deep Cut85points
- Pasty.NETDeep Cut85points
- PathfinderDeep Cut85points
- Pathway CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Pathwayz CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Patriot BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Patriot Cable SystemDeep Cut85points
- Patriot TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- Pattersonville TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Paul Bunyan CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Pavlov MediaDeep Cut85points
- PAXIODeep Cut85points
- PBT TelecomDeep Cut85points
- PC InternetDeep Cut85points
- PC TelcomDeep 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.