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
- Coop Câblo LeedsDeep Cut85points
- CoopeguanacasteDeep Cut85points
- CoopelescaDeep Cut85points
- Coopérative de Câblodistribution de Ste-HedwidgeDeep Cut85points
- Coopérative de solidarité de télécom d'Antoine-LabelleDeep Cut85points
- Coopérative de Télécommunication SJMDeep Cut85points
- Cooperative TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Cooperative Telephone ExchangeDeep Cut85points
- CoopTel, coop de télécommunicationDeep Cut85points
- Coosa Valley TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- COPACODeep Cut85points
- Copper Valley TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Coppernet SystemsDeep Cut85points
- Coral TelecomDeep Cut85points
- CorbinaDeep Cut85points
- Cordova Telephone CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- Core BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- CoreISPDeep Cut85points
- CoriolisDeep Cut85points
- Corn Belt TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- CornetDeep Cut85points
- Cornwall BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Corridor CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Cortez Community NetworkDeep Cut85points
- COSETTDeep Cut85points
- COSEUDeep Cut85points
- Cosmopolitan CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Cosmos TVDeep Cut85points
- CosmoteDeep Cut85points
- CosotnetDeep Cut85points
- Cost Master CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- COTABEDeep Cut85points
- COTAPDeep Cut85points
- CotasDeep Cut85points
- COTEAUTRIDeep Cut85points
- COTECODeep Cut85points
- COTEGUADeep Cut85points
- CotelDeep Cut85points
- COTEMODeep Cut85points
- COTEORDeep Cut85points
- COTERIDeep Cut85points
- COTESDeep Cut85points
- COTEVIDeep Cut85points
- CougarWirelessDeep Cut85points
- Coulee Internet ServicesDeep Cut85points
- Council Grove Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Countache EnterprisesDeep Cut85points
- Country ConnectDeep Cut85points
- Country Mile WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Country Road NetworksDeep 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.