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
- Mike McGrathDeep Cut85points
- MikrovisataDeep Cut85points
- Milaca Local LinkDeep Cut85points
- MilcomDeep Cut85points
- Mile High NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Miles Cooperative Telephone AssociationDeep Cut85points
- Miles WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Milford CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Mille Lacs Energy CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- MillenicomDeep Cut85points
- Millennium Computers & NetworkingDeep Cut85points
- Miller TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Millington Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Millry CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Milltown Mutual TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- MIM IT SystemDeep Cut85points
- MimoWorks InternetDeep Cut85points
- Minami Kyushu Cable TV NetDeep Cut85points
- Minburn CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- MIND InternetDeep Cut85points
- Minerva Valley TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- MINetDeep Cut85points
- MINetworksDeep Cut85points
- Minford Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Minnesota Lake TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Minnesota Valley TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Minnesota WiFiDeep Cut85points
- Minto Communications SocietyDeep Cut85points
- MirandaDeep Cut85points
- MirnetDeep Cut85points
- MiSignalDeep Cut85points
- Miss.NetDeep Cut85points
- Missing Link InternetDeep Cut85points
- Mission Valley CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Mississauga VoIPDeep Cut85points
- Missouri TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Mitchell TelecomDeep Cut85points
- MitecDeep Cut85points
- Mitene InternetDeep Cut85points
- MitrelinkDeep Cut85points
- MiWaveDeep Cut85points
- MixvoipDeep Cut85points
- Miyagi Cable TVDeep Cut85points
- Miyako TVDeep Cut85points
- Miyazaki Cable TVDeep Cut85points
- Miyoshi Cable VisionDeep Cut85points
- MKA TelecomDeep Cut85points
- MKF NetworksDeep Cut85points
- MLConnectDeep Cut85points
- MLGCDeep 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.