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
- Internex OnlineDeep Cut85points
- InternexaDeep Cut85points
- InternextDeep Cut85points
- InterNLnetDeep Cut85points
- InternodeDeep Cut85points
- InterouteDeep Cut85points
- Interplex TélécomDeep Cut85points
- InterproektDeep Cut85points
- Interstate Telecommunications CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- Interstate Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- IntersvyazDeep Cut85points
- InterZetDeep Cut85points
- InTouch SystemsDeep Cut85points
- IntraNSDeep Cut85points
- IntredDeep Cut85points
- Intrepid Broadband Communication CoDeep Cut85points
- InutekDeep Cut85points
- Invention TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- Inventive Wireless of NebraskaDeep Cut85points
- InvisalinkDeep Cut85points
- InvitechDeep Cut85points
- InvitelDeep Cut85points
- inwiDeep Cut85points
- IO Global ServicesDeep Cut85points
- ION CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Ionia UnlimitedDeep Cut85points
- iONLINEDeep Cut85points
- Iowa ConnectDeep Cut85points
- Iowa TelecomDeep Cut85points
- IP CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- IP ConnectDeep Cut85points
- IP GlobalDeep Cut85points
- IP SolutionsDeep Cut85points
- IP SwedenDeep Cut85points
- IP-OnlyDeep Cut85points
- IP4BDeep Cut85points
- iPassDeep Cut85points
- IPFoneDeep Cut85points
- IpkoDeep Cut85points
- IplanDeep Cut85points
- ipNXDeep Cut85points
- iPrimusDeep Cut85points
- IPSTARDeep Cut85points
- IPtelXDeep Cut85points
- IPTP NetworksDeep Cut85points
- IQ FiberDeep Cut85points
- IQ NetworksDeep Cut85points
- IrancellDeep Cut85points
- IrangateDeep Cut85points
- iReady.ca CommunicationsDeep 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.