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My last 2 companies, LinkedIn asked me to add an email address associated with the said company and actually confirm via said email in order to add them to my profile. So, if I worked for FooCompany, I had to have a @FooCompany.com email which is setup by someone at the company itself. Does this not cover what you're talking about?

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According to my research, LinkedIn only does this for executive and now recruiter-like titles, but not broadly. You may be able to in order to get "verified on LinkedIn" but it's not a requirement for showing association with a company.

https://www.theverge.com/news/771210/linkedin-recruiter-exec...

I'm bottom of the ladder but have seeing the option to do it for at least a year.

If it’s an option and not required, then that doesn’t solve it.

Any clue what’s there "Persona" program that they are trying to push hard "so you can have so much positive leads"?

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.

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

So? Then you can't do this. For companies that do want more control over their linkedin organizations, it is still a useful feature. For companies using free e-mail services... they probably don't care anyway.

Presumably because the official company page is registered under it?

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

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

I have the same. The difference is, if you do email verification, you will "verified" status. If not, you can still add the company to your linkedin, just unverified, which is not a label.

I had a LinkedIn account connected to my company email and one day I found myself locked out.

They want me to upload a govt id and blink my eyes in a video to get unlocked.

They can go jump.

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