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
- CableMurciaDeep Cut85points
- CablenetDeep Cut85points
- Cablenet GuatemalaDeep Cut85points
- Cablesouth Media IIIDeep Cut85points
- CabletelDeep Cut85points
- Cablevision du NordDeep Cut85points
- Cablevision NöhmerDeep Cut85points
- CableworldDeep Cut85points
- Câblovision WarwickDeep Cut85points
- Cabo TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Café InformatiqueDeep Cut85points
- Cairo NetDeep Cut85points
- Cajun BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Cal-Ore CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Cal.netDeep Cut85points
- Calaveras InternetDeep Cut85points
- Calaveras Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- CalDSLDeep Cut85points
- Calgary Community Network AssociationDeep Cut85points
- Calhoun UtilitiesDeep Cut85points
- California Broadband CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- California Broadband ServicesDeep Cut85points
- California TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Call OneDeep Cut85points
- Callabyte TechnologyDeep Cut85points
- Callaway Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- CallmeDeep Cut85points
- CallNet0800Deep Cut85points
- CallPlusDeep Cut85points
- CallsatDeep Cut85points
- CalltureDeep Cut85points
- CalmexDeep Cut85points
- CalNeva BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- CaltigerDeep Cut85points
- Calyx InstituteDeep Cut85points
- Cambo TechnologyDeep Cut85points
- Cambridge FibreDeep Cut85points
- Cambridge Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Camellia City FiberDeep Cut85points
- Camellia CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Cameron Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Cameron Telephone Company - TexasDeep Cut85points
- CamintelDeep Cut85points
- Camko CityDeep Cut85points
- CAMP COMMDeep Cut85points
- Campti-Pleasant Hill Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Campus Communications GroupDeep Cut85points
- CamtelDeep Cut85points
- Can ComDeep Cut85points
- Can-Net TelecomDeep 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.