Name an internet service provider

October 20, 2026 · Daily Dive #97

Explore 8,187 recorded answers and their points for question 6 on October 20, 2026.

Dated record7 questions · 17,096 recorded answers

8,187 recorded names on October 20, 2026, 8,079 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Picture the firms people pay every month purely to get online, from global fibre giants down to tiny member-owned outfits and mobile-only carriers: that whole field is fair game. Any commercial, municipal, cooperative or mobile operator selling internet access counts, even defunct ones; hardware vendors, websites and software brands do not.

8,187 recorded answers8,079 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut8,07885 pts
  • Rare9460 pts
  • Schooler1030 pts
  • Plankton410 pts
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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
  • Weiss InternetDeep Cut85points
  • WelcomtelDeep Cut85points
  • WelhoDeep Cut85points
  • WeLink CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
  • WeLink MyanmarDeep Cut85points
  • WellcomDeep Cut85points
  • Wellman Cooperative Telephone AssociationDeep Cut85points
  • Wells Community Internet ProjectDeep Cut85points
  • Wendell NETDeep Cut85points
  • Wes-Tex Telephone CooperativeDeep Cut85points
  • Wessex InternetDeep Cut85points
  • West CallDeep Cut85points
  • West Can TelecommunicationsDeep Cut85points
  • West Carolina TelDeep Cut85points
  • West Central NetDeep Cut85points
  • West Central Telephone AssociationDeep Cut85points
  • West Coast InternetDeep Cut85points
  • West Island CableDeep Cut85points
  • West Liberty Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
  • West Michigan Wireless ISPDeep Cut85points
  • West Penobscot Telephone & Telegraph CompanyDeep Cut85points
  • West Plains TelecommunicationsDeep Cut85points
  • West Point Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
  • West River Cooperative TelephoneDeep Cut85points
  • West River Telecommunications CooperativeDeep Cut85points
  • West Side CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
  • West Side TelecommunicationsDeep Cut85points
  • West Tennessee Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
  • West Texas Rural Telephone CoopDeep Cut85points
  • West Wisconsin TelcomDeep Cut85points
  • WestelDeep Cut85points
  • Westel SystemsDeep Cut85points
  • Westelcom NetworkDeep Cut85points
  • Western BroadbandDeep Cut85points
  • Western CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
  • Western Fibre CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
  • Western Iowa NetworksDeep Cut85points
  • Western Iowa WirelessDeep Cut85points
  • Western Reserve Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
  • Western Sonoma County Internet CooperativeDeep Cut85points
  • Western Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
  • Western Wahkiakum County Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
  • WesTex ConnectDeep Cut85points
  • Westlink CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
  • Westman CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
  • WestNetDeep Cut85points
  • WestNet IrelandDeep Cut85points
  • WestPAnetDeep Cut85points
  • Westphalia BroadbandDeep Cut85points
  • Westside Independent Telephone CompanyDeep 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.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 20 Oct, 14:41 UTC

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