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
- Mainstream DigitalDeep Cut85points
- Mainstream Fiber NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Mak BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Makedonski TelekomDeep Cut85points
- Malawi TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Malheur Home TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- MalitelDeep Cut85points
- Maltia NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Mamawapowin Technology SocietyDeep Cut85points
- Mammoth NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Managed Network SystemsDeep Cut85points
- Manawa Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Manchester HostDeep Cut85points
- Manchester-Hartland TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- MandicDeep Cut85points
- Mango 4GDeep Cut85points
- Mango TeleservicesDeep Cut85points
- MangoeskyDeep Cut85points
- MangoostaDeep Cut85points
- Manilla Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Manning Municipal UtilitiesDeep Cut85points
- Manor ITDeep Cut85points
- Mansfield Community FiberDeep Cut85points
- Manti Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Mantra OnlineDeep Cut85points
- Manx TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Maple BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Mapleton CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Maquoketa Valley Rural Electric CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- Marcus CableDeep Cut85points
- Margaretville TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Marianna-Scenery Hill Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Marinter TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Maritime BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Maritime Telecommunications NetworkDeep Cut85points
- Mark Twain CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Market Prizm B.V.Deep Cut85points
- MarlinkDeep Cut85points
- Marne & Elk Horn TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- MARnetDeep Cut85points
- Maroc TelecomDeep Cut85points
- MarpinDeep Cut85points
- Marquette-Adams Telephone CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- Marseilles Telephone Company of MarsDeep Cut85points
- Marshall County FiberDeep Cut85points
- Marshall FiberNetDeep Cut85points
- Marshall Municipal UtilitiesDeep Cut85points
- Martek WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Martelle Communications Co-opDeep Cut85points
- Martinsville Information NetworkDeep 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.