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
- Duncan CableDeep Cut85points
- Dunkerton CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Dunkirk and Fredonia Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Dunnell TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- DUO BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Duo County Telephone CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- DupliaDeep Cut85points
- Durbin Internet ServicesDeep Cut85points
- Dutakom Wibawa PutraDeep Cut85points
- Dynamic AnalojixDeep Cut85points
- Dynamix SolutionsDeep Cut85points
- E FiberDeep Cut85points
- e-BroadDeep Cut85points
- E-GoDeep Cut85points
- E-LcomDeep Cut85points
- E-NetworksDeep Cut85points
- E-Novations ComNetDeep Cut85points
- E-SatTel.caDeep Cut85points
- e-TelDeep Cut85points
- E-Vergent WirelessDeep Cut85points
- E4 ConnectDeep Cut85points
- Eagle BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Eagle Internet ServicesDeep Cut85points
- Eagle NetDeep Cut85points
- Eagle One WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Eagle Valley Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Eagle WirelessDeep Cut85points
- eagle.caDeep Cut85points
- EagleZip.comDeep Cut85points
- Earth BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Earth Zone Internet ServiceDeep Cut85points
- Earthlink IraqDeep Cut85points
- East and WestDeep Cut85points
- East Ascension Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- East Buchanan Telephone CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- East Mississippi ConnectDeep Cut85points
- East Otter Tail Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- East Shore Internet SocietyDeep Cut85points
- East TelecomDeep Cut85points
- East Texas BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Eastcoast TelecomDeep Cut85points
- EasteraDeep Cut85points
- Eastern CableDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Carolina BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Eastern CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Indiana WifiDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Nebraska Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Oregon TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Shore CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Shore of Virginia Broadband AuthorityDeep 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.