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
- CellularOne AirmaxDeep Cut85points
- CeltiisDeep Cut85points
- Cemig TelecomDeep Cut85points
- CENIAIDeep Cut85points
- CENICDeep Cut85points
- CenPacNetDeep Cut85points
- Centaur CableDeep Cut85points
- Center Junction TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- CenterTelecomDeep Cut85points
- CentracomDeep Cut85points
- Central AccessDeep Cut85points
- Central Arkansas Telephone CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- Central Coast Communications SocietyDeep Cut85points
- Central Florida BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Central Kootenay BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Central Link BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Central Montana CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Central Net Broadband NetworkDeep Cut85points
- Central Nevada Communications & ElectricDeep Cut85points
- Central Oklahoma TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Central Scott TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Central TelegraphDeep Cut85points
- Central Texas Telephone CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- Central TV and InternetDeep Cut85points
- Central Utah TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Central Virginia ServicesDeep Cut85points
- CentranetDeep Cut85points
- Centre de données HiveDeep Cut85points
- Centre Informatique Sirius - Sirius ISPDeep Cut85points
- Centre TESSDeep Cut85points
- Centre WISPDeep Cut85points
- Centric FiberDeep Cut85points
- CentriLogicDeep Cut85points
- CentrinDeep Cut85points
- Century CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- CEO CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Cerberus NetworksDeep Cut85points
- CeReTechsDeep Cut85points
- CERFnetDeep Cut85points
- CERISTDeep Cut85points
- CES Technology SolutionsDeep Cut85points
- CESNETDeep Cut85points
- CFE Internet para TodosDeep Cut85points
- CG CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- CgatesDeep Cut85points
- CGI-CommunicationDeep Cut85points
- Chahta ConnectDeep Cut85points
- Champion BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Champlain TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Chandpur Online SystemsDeep 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.