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
- DigitalCDeep Cut85points
- DigitalPathDeep Cut85points
- DigitalTV (Kazakhstan)Deep Cut85points
- Digitcom Telecommunications CanadaDeep Cut85points
- DigitelDeep Cut85points
- Digitel SystemsDeep Cut85points
- DigitelwebsDeep Cut85points
- Digitex.comDeep Cut85points
- DigiwebDeep Cut85points
- Diller Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Dillon Beach Internet ServiceDeep Cut85points
- Diode CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Direct CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Direct ConnectionDeep Cut85points
- Direct Save TelecomDeep Cut85points
- DirectLink (Oregon)Deep Cut85points
- Discovery InternetDeep Cut85points
- DishHomeDeep Cut85points
- DishnetDSLDeep Cut85points
- Disruption IO AgencyDeep Cut85points
- Distant VoiceDeep Cut85points
- DistributelDeep Cut85points
- Ditch It CanadaDeep Cut85points
- DITODeep Cut85points
- Diverse CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Diversified Systems ResourcesDeep Cut85points
- Diversity MediaDeep Cut85points
- Dixie-NetDeep Cut85points
- Dixon TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Dixville TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- DjezzyDeep Cut85points
- Djibouti TelecomDeep Cut85points
- DK ConnectDeep Cut85points
- DM WirelessDeep Cut85points
- DM-TechDeep Cut85points
- DMCI BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- DMM HikariDeep Cut85points
- DMS Data & Voice SolutionsDeep Cut85points
- DMTSDeep Cut85points
- DNADeep Cut85points
- DNA CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- DNetDeep Cut85points
- DNS BDDeep Cut85points
- DNS:NETDeep Cut85points
- Dobson FiberDeep Cut85points
- DoCANVASDeep Cut85points
- DocNetDeep Cut85points
- Docomo PacificDeep Cut85points
- DodoDeep Cut85points
- Dojo 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.