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
- EPIC CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Epic TouchDeep Cut85points
- EpiforaDeep Cut85points
- Epoch InternetDeep Cut85points
- EquationDeep Cut85points
- Equatorial TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Equi-TelDeep Cut85points
- EquinixDeep Cut85points
- ERC BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- ErenisDeep Cut85points
- ERF WirelessDeep Cut85points
- ERGO VenturesDeep Cut85points
- Eric Fixes EverythingDeep Cut85points
- EritelDeep Cut85points
- ERNET IndiaDeep Cut85points
- ErolsDeep Cut85points
- Erwin FiberDeep Cut85points
- ERZNETDeep Cut85points
- Esashi Waiwai NetDeep Cut85points
- Esat BTDeep Cut85points
- Escambia Community BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- EscapenetDeep Cut85points
- eSeeLYNX CommunicationDeep Cut85points
- Eser TelekomDeep Cut85points
- ESIT Canada Enterprise ServicesDeep Cut85points
- ESORPADeep Cut85points
- Esparto BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- ESPHDeep Cut85points
- Essex WiFiDeep Cut85points
- Est VidéocommunicationDeep Cut85points
- Estes Valley NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Estherville CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Eswatini TelecomDeep Cut85points
- EtanetasDeep Cut85points
- ETAPADeep Cut85points
- ETBDeep Cut85points
- ETC CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- ETECSADeep Cut85points
- EtexDeep Cut85points
- Ether LinkDeep Cut85points
- EtheraLinkDeep Cut85points
- Etheric NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Ethio TelecomDeep Cut85points
- EthoplexDeep Cut85points
- Ethos BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- EthxDeep Cut85points
- EtisalatDeep Cut85points
- ETLDeep Cut85points
- ETS TelecommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- EUnetDeep 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.