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
- yoozoomDeep Cut85points
- York Data ServicesDeep Cut85points
- Yorkville Telephone CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- Yosakoi Cable NetDeep Cut85points
- YotaDeep Cut85points
- You BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- YOU TVDeep Cut85points
- YouFibreDeep Cut85points
- YoufoneDeep Cut85points
- YOUMANODeep Cut85points
- Your Digital PartnerDeep Cut85points
- Yournet CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- youSeeDeep Cut85points
- YplaYDeep Cut85points
- YrlessDeep Cut85points
- Yucca TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Yukon TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Yukon-Waltz Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Yurok ConnectDeep Cut85points
- Z Computer & NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Z TechDeep Cut85points
- ZaazDeep Cut85points
- ZAD ISPDeep Cut85points
- ZainDeep Cut85points
- ZajilDeep Cut85points
- ZamnetDeep Cut85points
- ZamtelDeep Cut85points
- ZantelDeep Cut85points
- ZappDeep Cut85points
- Zavala CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- ZayoDeep Cut85points
- ZaytonaDeep Cut85points
- Zeecon Wireless InternetDeep Cut85points
- ZelanDeep Cut85points
- Zelenaya TochkaDeep Cut85points
- Zen InternetDeep Cut85points
- Zenda OnlineDeep Cut85points
- Zenfi NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Zenon N.S.P.Deep Cut85points
- Zentro InternetDeep Cut85points
- ZeopDeep Cut85points
- ZERO (Japan)Deep Cut85points
- Zero 4 CommunicationDeep Cut85points
- Zero2 WirelessDeep Cut85points
- ZeronetDeep Cut85points
- Zeta BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- ZetaLinkDeep Cut85points
- ZetnetDeep Cut85points
- ZeuterDeep Cut85points
- ZiD InternetDeep 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.