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
- Hancock CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Hancock Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Hankins Information TechnologyDeep Cut85points
- Hanoi TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Hanshin Cable EngineeringDeep Cut85points
- Hanson CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Happy TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Happy Valley Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Harbour ISPDeep Cut85points
- Hardy TelecommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- HardyNetDeep Cut85points
- Harewaves WirelessDeep Cut85points
- HargrayDeep Cut85points
- Harlan Community TelevisionDeep Cut85points
- Harlan Municipal UtilitiesDeep Cut85points
- Harmer CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Harmonize NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Harmony NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Harmony TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- HARNETDeep Cut85points
- Harrisonville TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Hart TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- HartelcoDeep Cut85points
- Hartington Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Hartland & St. Albans Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Hartman Telephone ExchangesDeep Cut85points
- HarvardNetDeep Cut85points
- HarvestBeamDeep Cut85points
- Hasser EnterprisesDeep Cut85points
- Hat Island Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- HatefDeep Cut85points
- HathwayDeep Cut85points
- Hatiya IT ParkDeep Cut85points
- Haute-Vitesse OutaouaisDeep Cut85points
- Havas OnlineDeep Cut85points
- Haviland BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Hawaii Dialogix TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Hawkeye TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Haxtun Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Hay CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Hayneville TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- HBCDeep Cut85points
- HBE InternetDeep Cut85points
- HCC!hobbynetDeep Cut85points
- HCE TelecomDeep Cut85points
- HCNDeep Cut85points
- HD TelecomDeep Cut85points
- HDER LINKDeep Cut85points
- HealthNet NepalDeep Cut85points
- Heart of Iowa Communications 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.