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
- Global OnLine JapanDeep Cut85points
- Global Telecom Services B.V.Deep Cut85points
- Global Voice.comDeep Cut85points
- GlobalCom Data ServicesDeep Cut85points
- GlobalConnectDeep Cut85points
- GlobalnetDeep Cut85points
- GlobalstarDeep Cut85points
- GlobalvisionDeep Cut85points
- Globe Internet MalawiDeep Cut85points
- GlobeNetDeep Cut85points
- GlobixDeep Cut85points
- GlobnetDeep Cut85points
- Globo.comDeep Cut85points
- GlocalnetDeep Cut85points
- GLW BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- GMN BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- GMO InternetDeep Cut85points
- GMXDeep Cut85points
- GODeep Cut85points
- Go Bee WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Go Creative WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Go InternetDeep Cut85points
- GO TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Go2Deep Cut85points
- goBEC - Barry Electric CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- GobesoftDeep Cut85points
- GoBrolly CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- GoCo Technology Limited PartnershipDeep Cut85points
- GOCO WirelessDeep Cut85points
- GoFibreDeep Cut85points
- GoGigDeep Cut85points
- Goiás TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Golan TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Gold Leaf TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Gold Phoenix ConsultantsDeep Cut85points
- Gold Star CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Golden Belt Telephone AssociationDeep Cut85points
- Golden TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Golden Triangle OnLineDeep Cut85points
- Golden West TelecommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Goldfield Access NetworkDeep Cut85points
- GolisDeep Cut85points
- GoNetspeedDeep Cut85points
- GoNetworkPRDeep Cut85points
- Good ConnectionsDeep Cut85points
- Goodman Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- GoodspeedDeep Cut85points
- GoodtelDeep Cut85points
- GoolightDeep Cut85points
- Gopher Byte ComputersDeep 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.