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
- AkadoDeep Cut85points
- Akashi Cable TVDeep Cut85points
- AkceycomDeep Cut85points
- AkéoDeep Cut85points
- Akesa ConnectDeep Cut85points
- Akita Cable TVDeep Cut85points
- AknetDeep Cut85points
- AktaDeep Cut85points
- Al Mamun OnlineDeep Cut85points
- Al Wafa Communication for Internet ServicesDeep Cut85points
- Alabama LightwaveDeep Cut85points
- Alabama Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Alamo BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Åland TelecomDeep Cut85points
- AlanIk TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- Alap CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- AlaresDeep Cut85points
- AlasConnectDeep Cut85points
- Alaska CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Alaska Power & TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Alaska Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- AlaTVDeep Cut85points
- Albanian Research and Academic NetworkDeep Cut85points
- Albany Mutual Telephone AssociationDeep Cut85points
- Albion TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- AlbtelecomDeep Cut85points
- ÅlcomDeep Cut85points
- Aldera CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Alderville Community DevelopmentDeep Cut85points
- ALE-NETDeep Cut85points
- Aledo BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Alenco CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- AlestraDeep Cut85points
- Alfa-SystemDeep Cut85points
- AlfanetDeep Cut85points
- Algar TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Algérie TélécomDeep Cut85points
- Algona Municipal UtilitiesDeep Cut85points
- Algonquin FiberDeep Cut85points
- Alhambra-Grantfork TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- AliceDeep Cut85points
- Alien InformatiqueDeep Cut85points
- Alif TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- AlignTecDeep Cut85points
- Alink TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Aljeel AljadeedDeep Cut85points
- All Points BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- All Telecom KoreaDeep Cut85points
- All West CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Allamakee-Clayton Electric CooperativeDeep 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.