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
- Vista Broadband NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Vista-United TelecommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- VistabeamDeep Cut85points
- Visual Link InternetDeep Cut85points
- Visual OnlineDeep Cut85points
- VITALinkDeep Cut85points
- VitiDeep Cut85points
- Vitts NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Viva BoliviaDeep Cut85points
- VivacitiDeep Cut85points
- VivacomDeep Cut85points
- VivaxDeep Cut85points
- Vivian Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- VividWirelessDeep Cut85points
- Vivint InternetDeep Cut85points
- VivoDeep Cut85points
- Vivodi TelecomDeep Cut85points
- ViyaDeep Cut85points
- VizocomDeep Cut85points
- VK MediaDeep Cut85points
- VMediaDeep Cut85points
- VNET FiberDeep Cut85points
- VNPTDeep Cut85points
- Vo ConnectDeep Cut85points
- Vocal IP NetworxDeep Cut85points
- VocusDeep Cut85points
- VodacomDeep Cut85points
- Vodafone IcelandDeep Cut85points
- VodalinkDeep Cut85points
- Vogtmann EngineeringDeep Cut85points
- VoiceHostDeep Cut85points
- VoiceNetPulse TelecomDeep Cut85points
- VoIP Much PhoneDeep Cut85points
- VoipfoneDeep Cut85points
- VoIPInviteDeep Cut85points
- VoisDeep Cut85points
- Volcano Internet ProviderDeep Cut85points
- VolgaTelecomDeep Cut85points
- VoliaDeep Cut85points
- VOLNÝDeep Cut85points
- Volo BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Volt BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- VoltelDeep Cut85points
- VonetDeep Cut85points
- VoneusDeep Cut85points
- VOODeep Cut85points
- Voom InternetDeep Cut85points
- VorbossDeep Cut85points
- Vortex Telecom GroupDeep Cut85points
- VoxDeep 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.