Recorded answers
8,156 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 8,156
- AGISDeep Cut85points
- AGLDeep Cut85points
- Agni SystemsDeep Cut85points
- AgPro WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Agri-Valley ServicesDeep Cut85points
- Agun TechDeep Cut85points
- AiE Informatique 2007Deep Cut85points
- Aiken Electric CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- AiNETDeep Cut85points
- Air AdvantageDeep Cut85points
- Air BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Air ITDeep Cut85points
- Air Link Rural BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Air Tech CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Air-Wans Wireless BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Aira CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- AirbandDeep Cut85points
- AirbitesDeep Cut85points
- AirBridge BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- AirCellDeep Cut85points
- AircomplusDeep Cut85points
- Aire InternetDeep Cut85points
- AireBeamDeep Cut85points
- AirecastDeep Cut85points
- Airenet Internet SolutionsDeep Cut85points
- AirFiDeep Cut85points
- AirFiberDeep Cut85points
- AirFiber WISPDeep Cut85points
- Airfibre SolutionsDeep Cut85points
- AirGridsDeep Cut85points
- Airhawk WirelessDeep Cut85points
- airHOPDeep Cut85points
- AirJaldiDeep Cut85points
- AirLinkDeep Cut85points
- AirLink Internet ServicesDeep Cut85points
- Airnet CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- AirNorthDeep Cut85points
- AiroCommDeep Cut85points
- Airosurf CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- AirRunner NetworksDeep Cut85points
- AirtekDeep Cut85points
- AirtelTigoDeep Cut85points
- AirWaveDeep Cut85points
- Airwave CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Airwave TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- AirwireDeep Cut85points
- AISDeep Cut85points
- Aitai NetDeep Cut85points
- AjatoDeep Cut85points
- AK 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.