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
- The Corporation of the Town of GeorginaDeep Cut85points
- The El Paso County Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- The Frugal NetworkDeep Cut85points
- The Government of NunavutDeep Cut85points
- The Hamilton TeleportDeep Cut85points
- The Imperial Group Limited.Deep Cut85points
- The Internet Centre CanadaDeep Cut85points
- The Junction InternetDeep Cut85points
- The Matrix TechnologyDeep Cut85points
- The North America Connect it NetworksDeep Cut85points
- The Nova Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- The One (UK ISP)Deep Cut85points
- The Packing ShedDeep Cut85points
- The Phone Co-opDeep Cut85points
- The PipelineDeep Cut85points
- The Rye Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- The Siskiyou Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- The SnowcloudDeep Cut85points
- The Stockade Consulting GroupDeep Cut85points
- THE STONEHAM COOPERATIVE TELEPHONEDeep Cut85points
- The Symbiotic Relations NetworkDeep Cut85points
- The VillagersDeep Cut85points
- The Volcano Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- The WELLDeep Cut85points
- The Westport TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- The WireDeep Cut85points
- The Wired RoadDeep Cut85points
- TheNewNet CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- thepacific.netDeep Cut85points
- theWISP.net ,INCDeep Cut85points
- Think CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Think Swift TechnologyDeep Cut85points
- ThinkBig NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Thomas CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Three River TelcoDeep Cut85points
- Three Rivers CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Thrive BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- ThrunetDeep Cut85points
- Thumb CellularDeep Cut85points
- Thumb Electric CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- ThundernetDeep Cut85points
- Thunderstar CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- ThurayaDeep Cut85points
- ThurcomDeep Cut85points
- ThusDeep Cut85points
- TIACDeep Cut85points
- TicinocomDeep Cut85points
- Tidewater TelecomDeep Cut85points
- TiERADeep Cut85points
- TieUs TechnologyDeep 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.