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
- AuracomDeep Cut85points
- AurensDeep Cut85points
- AureonDeep Cut85points
- Aurora BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Aurora by Hickory TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Aurora Cable InternetDeep Cut85points
- AUS InternetDeep Cut85points
- Aussie BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Autophone of LaredoDeep Cut85points
- AuvaDeep Cut85points
- Avant WirelessDeep Cut85points
- AvantelDeep Cut85points
- Avanti CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- AvatelDeep Cut85points
- AvativeDeep Cut85points
- ÁvatoDeep Cut85points
- AvelacomDeep Cut85points
- AvemaDeep Cut85points
- Avetria NetworksDeep Cut85points
- AvirTelDeep Cut85points
- AvisoDeep Cut85points
- AVISPDeep Cut85points
- AvolveDeep Cut85points
- Awajishima TelevisionDeep Cut85points
- AwaléDeep Cut85points
- AwalnetDeep Cut85points
- AwasrDeep Cut85points
- AWCCDeep Cut85points
- AwesomeNetDeep Cut85points
- Ax-S-AnywhereDeep Cut85points
- AxcessnetDeep Cut85points
- Axiom TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- AxionDeep Cut85points
- Axis HostedDeep Cut85points
- AXS BoliviaDeep Cut85points
- AxsitDeep Cut85points
- AxtelDeep Cut85points
- AxxessDeep Cut85points
- Axxis CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Aya ISPDeep Cut85points
- Ayacht Technology SolutionsDeep Cut85points
- Ayera TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- Ayersville TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Ayrshire Farmers Mutual TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Ayva NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Az AirNetDeep Cut85points
- AzerOnlineDeep Cut85points
- AzerTelecomDeep Cut85points
- AzEuroTelDeep Cut85points
- AzRENADeep 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.