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
- Hub66Deep Cut85points
- Hubbard Cooperative Telephone AssociationDeep Cut85points
- Hubsmart NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Hudson Valley WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Huge NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Hull FibreDeep Cut85points
- Humboldt TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Humphreys County Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Hungry Valley Broadband InitiativeDeep Cut85points
- Huntel CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Hunter CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- HurontelDeep Cut85points
- Hurricane ElectricDeep Cut85points
- Hurricane WiFiDeep Cut85points
- Husky NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Hutch Sri LankaDeep Cut85points
- Hutchinson Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Hutterian Broadband NetworkDeep Cut85points
- Huxley Communications CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- Hy-Tek Computer Sales and ServicesDeep Cut85points
- HyakDeep Cut85points
- Hydro One TelecomDeep Cut85points
- HypaDeep Cut85points
- Hyper FusionDeep Cut85points
- Hyperflex BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- HyperiaDeep Cut85points
- HyperlineDeep Cut85points
- HypernetDeep Cut85points
- HyperopticDeep Cut85points
- HyteDeep Cut85points
- HyTek ComputersDeep Cut85points
- I CommunicationDeep Cut85points
- I Link Internet ServiceDeep Cut85points
- I Need BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- I Voice Comm TelnetworkDeep Cut85points
- I-2000Deep Cut85points
- i-CableDeep Cut85points
- i-CANDeep Cut85points
- I-ONDeep Cut85points
- i-revoDeep Cut85points
- I.D. LogicDeep Cut85points
- I.S.F. QuébecDeep Cut85points
- i29 WirelessDeep Cut85points
- i2e1Deep Cut85points
- i3 BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- i5 FiberDeep Cut85points
- IAAK TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- IAMO CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- iAsiaWorksDeep Cut85points
- iBAHNDeep 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.