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freeopinion 17 hours 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?

HelloNurse 12 hours ago  [ - ]

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

jaapz 8 hours ago  [ - ]

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

HelloNurse 7 hours ago  [ - ]

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.
bigbuppo 3 hours ago  [ - ]

Then there are old school ISPs where there was no separation between company and customer email addresses.

DaSHacka 16 hours ago  [ - ]

Presumably because the official company page is registered under it?

account42 13 hours ago  [ - ]

Not all companies use email addresses under the same domain as the "official company page" though.

sensanaty 11 hours ago  [ - ]

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