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
- Dokom21Deep Cut85points
- Dolphin InternetDeep Cut85points
- Doly IT CornerDeep Cut85points
- Dom.ruDeep Cut85points
- Domaine Le Montagnais Senc.Deep Cut85points
- DomiciliumDeep Cut85points
- DommelDeep Cut85points
- Door County BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- DoruknetDeep Cut85points
- Dot InternetDeep Cut85points
- DotmacDeep Cut85points
- Dotto-OneDeep Cut85points
- Double Dog CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Douglas Fast NetDeep Cut85points
- Downeast Broadband UtilityDeep Cut85points
- Doylestown Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- DQE CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- DR InternetDeep Cut85points
- Dragon WiFiDeep Cut85points
- Dream NetDeep Cut85points
- DreamlineDeep Cut85points
- Dreamscape OnlineDeep Cut85points
- DreiDeep Cut85points
- Drenthe Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Drik ICTDeep Cut85points
- Drimnin Community BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- DrukComDeep Cut85points
- Dry Creek Internet & CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Dryden FiberDeep Cut85points
- DS Security SolutionsDeep Cut85points
- DSI StreamDeep Cut85points
- DSL BahamasDeep Cut85points
- DSL ExtremeDeep Cut85points
- DSL.netDeep Cut85points
- DSLbyAir (Alabama)Deep Cut85points
- DSLbyAir (Louisiana)Deep Cut85points
- DSTDeep Cut85points
- dtacDeep Cut85points
- DTC CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Dtech OnlineDeep Cut85points
- DtelDeep Cut85points
- DTIDeep Cut85points
- duDeep Cut85points
- Dual NetDeep Cut85points
- Dubois Telephone ExchangeDeep Cut85points
- Duclos & Michaud TélécomDeep Cut85points
- Ducor Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Duke BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Dumont TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Dunbarton Telephone CompanyDeep 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.