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
- Stardust TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Stargate CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Stargate ConnectionsDeep Cut85points
- Stargate IndustriesDeep Cut85points
- StarHubDeep Cut85points
- StarmanDeep Cut85points
- StarnetDeep Cut85points
- Starnet MoldovaDeep Cut85points
- StarpowerDeep Cut85points
- StarryDeep Cut85points
- Start NetworkDeep Cut85points
- Start.caDeep Cut85points
- StartouchDeep Cut85points
- StarvoiceDeep Cut85points
- Starwire TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- State Information Technology AgencyDeep Cut85points
- State TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Stayton Cooperative TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- STCDeep Cut85points
- STE CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Stealth BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Stealth CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Steelville Telephone ExchangeDeep Cut85points
- StehrocomDeep Cut85points
- Stellar Private Cable SystemsDeep Cut85points
- Stelle TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- STEM ConnectDeep Cut85points
- Stephouse NetworksDeep Cut85points
- StiegelerDeep Cut85points
- Stimulus TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- Stix InternetDeep Cut85points
- Stockbridge & Sherwood Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Stockholm-Strandburg TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Storm Internet ServicesDeep Cut85points
- StormCloudDeep Cut85points
- StormFiberDeep Cut85points
- Stoutland Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Stowe CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Strada CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Straight Forward BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Straight Shot WirelessDeep Cut85points
- StraightUpNetDeep Cut85points
- Strasburg Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Strata NetworksDeep Cut85points
- StrataNetDeep Cut85points
- Stratford Mutual TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Stratos GlobalDeep Cut85points
- Stratos NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Stratus NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Stratus Wave CommunicationsDeep 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.