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
- XTechDeep Cut85points
- Xtel CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- XtranetDeep Cut85points
- Xtratyme TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- XtreamInternetDeep Cut85points
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- XtrimDeep Cut85points
- xyTelDeep Cut85points
- Y5ZONEDeep Cut85points
- Ya.comDeep Cut85points
- YAB TelecomDeep Cut85points
- YadtelDeep Cut85points
- Yaeyama Cable NetDeep Cut85points
- YahsatDeep Cut85points
- YakDeep Cut85points
- Yakama Nation NetworksDeep Cut85points
- YalloDeep Cut85points
- Yamaguchi Cable VisionDeep Cut85points
- YasDeep Cut85points
- Yatanarpon TeleportDeep Cut85points
- Yates City TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- YayziDeep Cut85points
- Ycom NetworksDeep Cut85points
- YCVDeep Cut85points
- YDSP InternetDeep Cut85points
- Yekooche First NationDeep Cut85points
- Yelcot CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Yell County Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Yellowhammer NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Yellowknife WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Yellowstone FiberDeep Cut85points
- Yellowstone Media DesignDeep Cut85points
- YemenNetDeep Cut85points
- Yeoman TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Yes (Malaysia)Deep Cut85points
- Yes NetDeep Cut85points
- Yes Telecom (2020)Deep Cut85points
- YettelDeep Cut85points
- YgnitionDeep Cut85points
- YinghaiweiDeep Cut85points
- YK CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- YlineDeep Cut85points
- Yo! AfricaDeep Cut85points
- YoigoDeep Cut85points
- YokozunanetDeep Cut85points
- YomojoDeep Cut85points
- Yomura FiberDeep Cut85points
- yondoo BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Yoo FibraDeep Cut85points
- YooMeeDeep 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.