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
- UnivercellDeep Cut85points
- Universal ConnectivityDeep Cut85points
- Universal TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Universe TelecommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Univision MongoliaDeep Cut85points
- Unlimited NetDeep Cut85points
- UnlimitedvilleDeep Cut85points
- UNMETEREDDeep Cut85points
- UnoDeep Cut85points
- UnwiredDeep Cut85points
- unWired BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Unwired FijiDeep Cut85points
- UOLDeep Cut85points
- UOL SinectisDeep Cut85points
- UP LogonDeep Cut85points
- up.netDeep Cut85points
- UPCDeep Cut85points
- UplinkDeep Cut85points
- Uplink MyanmarDeep Cut85points
- UpLink WirelessDeep Cut85points
- UpnetDeep Cut85points
- UPNETWIDeep Cut85points
- UppDeep Cut85points
- Upper Peninsula Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Upper Sioux TelecommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Uprise FiberDeep Cut85points
- Upsala Cooperative Telephone AssociationDeep Cut85points
- UPTeleDeep Cut85points
- uptime alliesDeep Cut85points
- uptime servicesDeep Cut85points
- Upward AccessDeep Cut85points
- Upward BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- UQ WiMAXDeep Cut85points
- UralsvyazinformDeep Cut85points
- Urban CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Urban WiFiDeep Cut85points
- UrbanfibreDeep Cut85points
- Urbanwave Internet SolutionsDeep Cut85points
- UruklinkDeep Cut85points
- US CableDeep Cut85points
- US InternetDeep Cut85points
- Us New Era InternetDeep Cut85points
- US SignalDeep Cut85points
- USA Choice Internet ServicesDeep Cut85points
- USA CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- USA Communications (Iowa)Deep Cut85points
- USA Digital CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- USA Internet ServicesDeep Cut85points
- USAi.netDeep Cut85points
- USAN BurundiDeep 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.