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
- Eastern Slope Rural Telephone AssociationDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Telephone & TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- Eastern TimeDeep Cut85points
- Eastex Telephone CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- EastlinkDeep Cut85points
- Easton Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Easton Utilities CommissionDeep Cut85points
- Eastsierra.netDeep Cut85points
- Easy InternetDeep Cut85points
- Easy Internet NowDeep Cut85points
- EasybellDeep Cut85points
- EasyCallDeep Cut85points
- EasynetDeep Cut85points
- EasywebDeep Cut85points
- EAV NetworksDeep Cut85points
- eazyDeep Cut85points
- Eazy CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- EboneDeep Cut85points
- EBOXDeep Cut85points
- EBTX WirelessDeep Cut85points
- EC FiberDeep Cut85points
- Eccelerate InternetDeep Cut85points
- EchoDeep Cut85points
- Echo BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Echo IT ConsultingDeep Cut85points
- Echo NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Echo Wireless BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- EchotelDeep Cut85points
- Eckles Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Eclipse BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Eclipse CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Eclipse InternetDeep Cut85points
- Eclipse Technology SolutionsDeep Cut85points
- ECNDeep Cut85points
- Eco ServicesDeep Cut85points
- EconetDeep Cut85points
- EconofibreDeep Cut85points
- EcotelDeep Cut85points
- ECSISDeep Cut85points
- ECTISPDeep Cut85points
- EdatelDeep Cut85points
- Edgar HighSpeedDeep Cut85points
- Edge BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Edge ConnectDeep Cut85points
- Edge Telecom ConsultantsDeep Cut85points
- EdgeUnoDeep Cut85points
- EDION NetDeep Cut85points
- EDPnetDeep Cut85points
- Edward HomesteadDeep Cut85points
- Edwards 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.