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
- Day WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Daystarr CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- DB TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- DBD Deutsche Breitband DiensteDeep Cut85points
- DC AccessDeep Cut85points
- DC-NetDeep Cut85points
- DCI TelecomDeep Cut85points
- DCICableDeep Cut85points
- DCM InternetDeep Cut85points
- DCTexas InternetDeep Cut85points
- DCV Électronique Inc. (DCV Télécom)Deep Cut85points
- DDishTVDeep Cut85points
- De Digitale StadDeep Cut85points
- DE FastlinkDeep Cut85points
- Debian Information TechnologyDeep Cut85points
- Decatur Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Decatur Telephone Company - ArkansasDeep Cut85points
- DECCA CableDeep Cut85points
- Decibell.caDeep Cut85points
- Declaration Networks GroupDeep Cut85points
- DedicadoDeep Cut85points
- Deerfield Farmers Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- DeiCDeep Cut85points
- Dejero LabsDeep Cut85points
- DeKalb Telephone CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- Del Nero Communications ManagementDeep Cut85points
- Delavan TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Delcambre TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- DELCOMDeep Cut85points
- Delhi TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Dell Telephone CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- DellNetDeep Cut85points
- Delmarva WiFiDeep Cut85points
- DelphiDeep Cut85points
- Delta CableDeep Cut85points
- Delta CommDeep Cut85points
- Delta County Tele-CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- DELTA FiberDeep Cut85points
- Delta High Speed InternetDeep Cut85points
- Delta LinkDeep Cut85points
- Delta Software and CommunicationDeep Cut85points
- Delta TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Delta Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- DeltacomDeep Cut85points
- Deltaland.netDeep Cut85points
- Demon InternetDeep Cut85points
- Demopolis CATVDeep Cut85points
- DemosDeep Cut85points
- DEN NetworksDeep Cut85points
- DensanDeep 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.