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
- Range Telephone CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- Rangeley InternetDeep Cut85points
- Ranks ITTDeep Cut85points
- Rapid CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Rapid NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Rapid RuralDeep Cut85points
- Rapid TechnologyDeep Cut85points
- Rapid WirelessDeep Cut85points
- RapidSystemsDeep Cut85points
- Rarity CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- RascomDeep Cut85points
- RAUDeep Cut85points
- Ravalli BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Rawshanara Internet CommunicationDeep Cut85points
- Rayfield CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Razer WirelessDeep Cut85points
- RazzoLinkDeep Cut85points
- RC TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- RCI CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- RCS Energy ServicesDeep Cut85points
- Reach BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- REACH4 CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- ReadiTechDeep Cut85points
- Readlyn Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Real Image InternetDeep Cut85points
- Real InternetDeep Cut85points
- REAL LINK NETWORKDeep Cut85points
- Realnet Broadband & SolutionDeep Cut85points
- REANNZDeep Cut85points
- Reasnor TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Rebel InternetDeep Cut85points
- Rebeltec CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Rebus CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Récupération FlorenceDeep Cut85points
- Red Científica PeruanaDeep Cut85points
- Red DataDeep Cut85points
- Red LinkDeep Cut85points
- Red NetworkDeep Cut85points
- Red River CableDeep Cut85points
- Red River CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Red Sands InternetDeep Cut85points
- Red Spectrum CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Red VerdeDeep Cut85points
- Redbird CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Redbird Internet ServicesDeep Cut85points
- Redbox SolutionsDeep Cut85points
- RedcentricDeep Cut85points
- RedfiBroadbandDeep Cut85points
- RedIRISDeep Cut85points
- REDNET NetworksDeep 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.