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
- GuatelDeep Cut85points
- Guibo CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Guiné TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Guinée TélécomDeep Cut85points
- Gulf Coast WifiDeep Cut85points
- Gulf Islands CableDeep Cut85points
- Gulf Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- GulfnetDeep Cut85points
- Gulfpines CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Gunnison Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Guthrie Telecommunications NetworkDeep Cut85points
- GVEC.netDeep Cut85points
- GVG GlasfaserDeep Cut85points
- GVTDeep Cut85points
- GVTC CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Gwaii - Q.C.I. VenturesDeep Cut85points
- GwaiiTel SocietyDeep Cut85points
- GWIDeep Cut85points
- Gyoda Cable TVDeep Cut85points
- H and K Rural NetworksDeep Cut85points
- H&B CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- H1 TelekomDeep Cut85points
- HA-VEL internetDeep Cut85points
- Habari NodeDeep Cut85points
- Habiganj Net CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Hachinohe TelevisionDeep Cut85points
- Haefele ConnectDeep Cut85points
- Haefele TVDeep Cut85points
- Hafslund TelekomDeep Cut85points
- Hager TelecomDeep Cut85points
- HainetDeep Cut85points
- Hakodate Information NetworkDeep Cut85points
- HalasatDeep Cut85points
- HalebopDeep Cut85points
- Hallettsville CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Hallman GroupDeep Cut85points
- Hallo 015Deep Cut85points
- HallonDeep Cut85points
- HallsNetDeep Cut85points
- HalotelDeep Cut85points
- Halstad Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Hamamatsu Cable TVDeep Cut85points
- Hamilton ConnectsDeep Cut85points
- Hamilton County CableDeep Cut85points
- Hamilton County CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Hamilton County Telephone CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- Hamilton.netDeep Cut85points
- Hampden Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Hamrah-e AvalDeep Cut85points
- HanatechDeep 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.