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
- IberbandaDeep Cut85points
- iBestDeep Cut85points
- IBITSDeep Cut85points
- IBM Global NetworkDeep Cut85points
- iBox CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- IBW CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- ICA WirelessDeep Cut85points
- ICC CommunicationDeep Cut85points
- IceDeep Cut85points
- ICELL NetworkDeep Cut85points
- IceNet WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Ichihara Community Network TVDeep Cut85points
- IchinetDeep Cut85points
- Ichinoseki Cable NetworkDeep Cut85points
- IclixDeep Cut85points
- ICOM BangladeshDeep Cut85points
- Icon CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Icon InfotechDeep Cut85points
- ICON TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- iConnect TelecomsDeep Cut85points
- iConnect ZambiaDeep Cut85points
- ICONNETDeep Cut85points
- ICONZDeep Cut85points
- IcosnetDeep Cut85points
- ICS Advanced TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- ICTGlobeDeep Cut85points
- ICYNET CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- IDEA Networks and CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Idea TecDeep Cut85points
- Ideal Communications NetworkDeep Cut85points
- IdeaTekDeep Cut85points
- IDMDeep Cut85points
- IDNetDeep Cut85points
- IDS BangladeshDeep Cut85points
- IDTDeep Cut85points
- iesyDeep Cut85points
- IEunetDeep Cut85points
- IFBDeep Cut85points
- iFIBER CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- iGDeep Cut85points
- Iga Ueno Cable TVDeep Cut85points
- IGL TeleConnectDeep Cut85points
- IgLou Internet ServicesDeep Cut85points
- Ignite BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- iGo TechnologyDeep Cut85points
- IGS HawkesburyDeep Cut85points
- IguanaNetDeep Cut85points
- IhugDeep Cut85points
- Iida Cable TVDeep Cut85points
- IIJDeep 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.