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Comment by freeopinion

1 month ago

You mean @fooco.com? Or @foocousa.com? Or @fooco.xyz? @fooco.ai? @foocoltd.net? @foo.co.uk?

How would LinkedIn validate that your email domain belongs to the company you claim to work for?

With a company-managed list of owned domains where real employees have their work email addresses (unrelated to website domains).

  • And using DNS to prove that a domain is actually owned by this organization

    • Email domains of employee addresses aren't necessarily owned by the company. For example:

        - a startup with legacy personal email addresses from one or two universities
        - a spin-off sharing the email domain (and the whole IT infrastructure) of the parent company
        - cheapskates using six approved free email services
      

      For security purposes, on the other hand, the important part is proving that the LinkedIn account is owned by the organization.

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What HelloNurse said, whoever it is that runs the company page on LinkedIn provides a list of domains that they consider theirs.