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
- Allband Communications CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- AllCore CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Allegiance TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Allegiant NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Allendale Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- AllensTVDeep Cut85points
- AllenteDeep Cut85points
- Alliance BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Alliance CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Alliance Communications CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- Alliance TélécomDeep Cut85points
- AlloDeep Cut85points
- ALLPOINT NETWORXDeep Cut85points
- AllredeDeep Cut85points
- AllstreamDeep Cut85points
- AllTeleDeep Cut85points
- AllWorldITDeep Cut85points
- Alma Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Alma TVDeep Cut85points
- Almli CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- AlncomDeep Cut85points
- Alo CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Aloha BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Alpha Broadway SystemDeep Cut85points
- Alpha Communications NetworkDeep Cut85points
- Alpha InternetDeep Cut85points
- Alpha NetworkDeep Cut85points
- Alpha TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- AlphacallDeep Cut85points
- Alpine CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- AlsatisDeep Cut85points
- Alta Municipal UtilitiesDeep Cut85points
- Altamaha Electric Membership CorporationDeep Cut85points
- AltatecDeep Cut85points
- AltaVista Free AccessDeep Cut85points
- AltaysvyazDeep Cut85points
- Altec TelecomsDeep Cut85points
- AltegroSkyDeep Cut85points
- AltelDeep Cut85points
- Alternative Choice WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Alternative Internet ResourcesDeep Cut85points
- Alternet (North Bay)Deep Cut85points
- AlternexDeep Cut85points
- AltiboxDeep Cut85points
- Altice DominicanaDeep Cut85points
- Altima SolutionsDeep Cut85points
- Altima TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Altitude Community BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Altitude ISPDeep Cut85points
- ALTIUS BroadbandDeep 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.