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
- Lawyers-OnlineDeep Cut85points
- Layer2 CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Layer3Deep Cut85points
- LaZerArtDeep Cut85points
- LazernetDeep Cut85points
- LCVDeep Cut85points
- Le Groupe MediomDeep Cut85points
- Le-Ru TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- LeacoDeep Cut85points
- Lead Cyber SecurityDeep Cut85points
- Leaf River TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Leap CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Leap Frog NetworksDeep Cut85points
- LeapstreamDeep Cut85points
- LeaptelDeep Cut85points
- LEARNDeep Cut85points
- Lebanon OnlineDeep Cut85points
- Lebanon UtilitiesDeep Cut85points
- Lee CommunicationDeep Cut85points
- Leepfrog TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Legacy InternetDeep Cut85points
- Lehigh Valley Cooperative Telephone AssociationDeep Cut85points
- LemaDeep Cut85points
- Lemalu HoldingsDeep Cut85points
- Lemonweir Valley Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Lennon TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Lenoir City Utilities BoardDeep Cut85points
- Lenox Municipal UtilitiesDeep Cut85points
- LeonetDeep Cut85points
- Leonore Mutual TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Leopard NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Lequios BBDeep Cut85points
- Les Entreprises Canfone.comDeep Cut85points
- Les Réseaux de l'AllianceDeep Cut85points
- Les Services Financier GemcoDeep Cut85points
- LES.NETDeep Cut85points
- Leslie County Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Levan TownDeep Cut85points
- Level 3Deep Cut85points
- LeverettNetDeep Cut85points
- Lewis River Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Lewisport Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Lexcom Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Lexington Electric SystemDeep Cut85points
- Leyden BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- LG HelloVisionDeep Cut85points
- LG U+Deep Cut85points
- LHTC BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- LiberoDeep Cut85points
- LibertyDeep 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.