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
- Ireland On-LineDeep Cut85points
- IrideosDeep Cut85points
- IridiumDeep Cut85points
- Iris TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- Irish BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- IrisNetworksDeep Cut85points
- IristelDeep Cut85points
- Iron Bay Computer and DesignDeep Cut85points
- Iron River CableDeep Cut85points
- Ironton TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Irsa Communications NetworkDeep Cut85points
- Irvine Community TelevisionDeep Cut85points
- Isahaya Cable TelevisionDeep Cut85points
- isao.netDeep Cut85points
- IsatcomDeep Cut85points
- IservDeep Cut85points
- ishDeep Cut85points
- Ishikawa Computer CenterDeep Cut85points
- IskonDeep Cut85points
- Iskra KrasnoyarskDeep Cut85points
- IskratelecomDeep Cut85points
- Island Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Island Wireless SolutionsDeep Cut85points
- IslandnetDeep Cut85points
- Islesboro Municipal BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- ISM Information Systems Management CanadaDeep Cut85points
- İşNetDeep Cut85points
- IsocelDeep Cut85points
- ISOMEDIADeep Cut85points
- ISP CanadaDeep Cut85points
- ISP ManagementDeep Cut85points
- ispeed CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- iSpeed InternetDeep Cut85points
- iSpeed Rural BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- ISPIODeep Cut85points
- ispMintDeep Cut85points
- ISPOneDeep Cut85points
- ISSPDeep Cut85points
- IST TelecomDeep Cut85points
- iStar InternetDeep Cut85points
- IT Auditors PRDeep Cut85points
- IT BaseDeep Cut85points
- IT ConnectDeep Cut85points
- It Next TechnologyDeep Cut85points
- IT PilotsDeep Cut85points
- IT RockstarsDeep Cut85points
- IT VoiceDeep Cut85points
- IT WebDeep Cut85points
- IT WorksDeep Cut85points
- IT&EDeep 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.