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
- Burton Internet SocietyDeep Cut85points
- BUSCONNEXXDeep Cut85points
- Bush-TellDeep Cut85points
- Business ConnexionDeep Cut85points
- Business NetworkDeep Cut85points
- Business On SteroidsDeep Cut85points
- Business ZoneDeep Cut85points
- Business-BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- BusinessIP SolutionsDeep Cut85points
- Busy InternetDeep Cut85points
- Butler-Bremer CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Butterfield WirelessDeep Cut85points
- BuztonDeep Cut85points
- Buzz broadbandDeep Cut85points
- Buzz NetworXDeep Cut85points
- BuzzdotnetDeep Cut85points
- bway.netDeep Cut85points
- BWTelcomDeep Cut85points
- Byhalia.netDeep Cut85points
- BySkyDeep Cut85points
- C & C Wireless Puerto RicoDeep Cut85points
- C-COM Satellite SystemsDeep Cut85points
- C-I CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- C-R Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- C3Deep Cut85points
- Cable & WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Cable & Wireless PanamaDeep Cut85points
- Cable & Wireless SeychellesDeep Cut85points
- Cable America MissouriDeep Cut85points
- Cable AtlanticDeep Cut85points
- Cable AxionDeep Cut85points
- Cable ColorDeep Cut85points
- Cable Media ShikokuDeep Cut85points
- Cable Media WaiwaiDeep Cut85points
- Cable Net 296Deep Cut85points
- Cable Net ShimonosekiDeep Cut85points
- Cable Net SuzukaDeep Cut85points
- Cable OndaDeep Cut85points
- Cable One LebanonDeep Cut85points
- Cable ServicesDeep Cut85points
- Cable Station FukuokaDeep Cut85points
- Cable TV KaniDeep Cut85points
- Cable TV SaikiDeep Cut85points
- Cable TV ShinagawaDeep Cut85points
- Cable TV TokushimaDeep Cut85points
- Cable TV ToyamaDeep Cut85points
- CablecomDeep Cut85points
- CablelinkDeep Cut85points
- Cablelynx BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- CablemásDeep 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.