Krillion 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
- Antec ServicepoolDeep Cut85points
- AntelDeep Cut85points
- AntelecomDeep Cut85points
- Antennen EinertDeep Cut85points
- Anterior BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Anthem BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Antietam BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Antigua Computer TechnologyDeep Cut85points
- Antigua Wireless VenturesDeep Cut85points
- Antik TelecomDeep Cut85points
- ANTS-TechnologyDeep Cut85points
- AnviaDeep Cut85points
- Anvil CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- AnwarnetDeep Cut85points
- Aomori Cable TVDeep Cut85points
- Apertech CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Apexia Voice and DataDeep Cut85points
- Apna NetworkDeep Cut85points
- Appalachian WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Applecross InnovationsDeep Cut85points
- Applegate BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- ApplegateNetworkDeep Cut85points
- Applied Connective TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- Applied Technology GroupDeep Cut85points
- APSFLDeep Cut85points
- Apsis CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Aptech NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Aptitude Internet SolutionsDeep Cut85points
- Aptum Technologies (Canada)Deep Cut85points
- APUADeep Cut85points
- APXnetDeep Cut85points
- AqlDeep Cut85points
- AquatelDeep Cut85points
- AquissDeep Cut85points
- Aquiva WirelessDeep Cut85points
- AR TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Arapahoe Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- AraxDeep Cut85points
- Arbuckle WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Arbutel ServicesDeep Cut85points
- Archtop FiberDeep Cut85points
- ArctelDeep Cut85points
- Arcus VoiceDeep Cut85points
- Ardent NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Ardmore Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- AREA Real Estate ServicesDeep Cut85points
- ArelionDeep Cut85points
- Argent CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Argon TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- Ariana Network ServicesDeep 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.