boost.inc gets you a custom LinkedIn vanity URL, including short, clean, single-letter, and already-taken handles, in 1 to 3 business days from $1,400, without ever asking for your password or account access.
A custom LinkedIn URL is the most-shared link in professional life. It sits on your email signature, your resume, your business card, and the bottom of every pitch deck. When it reads linkedin.com/in/jdavis instead of linkedin.com/in/jane-davis-8a47b2f9, you look established. When the handle you want is short and clean, you look like you got there first. Most people set the easy version themselves in a minute. The handles worth having are usually already gone, and that is the part nobody explains.
Key facts
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Turnaround | 1 to 3 business days |
| Price from | $1,400 |
| What we need | The vanity URL you want and a link to your profile |
| Guarantee | Quoted before payment |
A LinkedIn vanity URL is the custom, human-readable ending of your public profile address, such as linkedin.com/in/yourname, which replaces the random string of numbers and characters LinkedIn assigns to every new account.
A LinkedIn username claim is the process of securing a specific vanity URL that is short, premium, or already held by another account, through direct relationships rather than the public self-serve tool that only releases unused handles.
How do you change your LinkedIn URL yourself?
If the handle you want is available, this is genuinely easy and free, and you should do it today. LinkedIn documents the full process in its help center under customizing your public profile URL. Here is the short version.
Step 1: Open your public profile settings
Go to your profile and find the "Edit public profile and URL" link in the top-right panel. This opens the public-view editor, where LinkedIn shows the URL it currently assigns you. On the right side of that screen you will see your current address with an "Edit" pencil next to it.
Step 2: Enter the handle you want
Click the pencil, then type the slug you want after linkedin.com/in/. LinkedIn allows 3 to 100 letters or numbers, with no spaces, symbols, or special characters. As you type, the tool checks availability in real time. If the handle is free, it accepts it. If it is taken, it tells you it is unavailable and stops there. That is the wall most people hit.
Step 3: Save and update your links
Save the change. Your new URL is live immediately. Then update it everywhere it appears: email signature, resume, website, and any social bios. Note that LinkedIn lets you change your vanity URL multiple times, but each change can briefly affect how your old link resolves, so set it once and leave it.
That is the whole self-serve path, and for an available handle it is the right move. The problem starts when the slug you actually want is already someone else's.
Why is the LinkedIn URL you want already taken?
LinkedIn has hundreds of millions of members, and the platform has been running since 2003. Short, clean handles, first names, common surnames, single letters, two-letter combinations, brand words, were claimed years ago by people who joined early or by accounts that have sat dormant ever since. The self-serve tool has exactly one rule: it only releases handles that no account currently holds. It offers no waitlist, no transfer request, no way to reach the current holder, and no path to recover a handle from an inactive profile. If your name is common or your target handle is short, the tool will almost always show it as unavailable, and there is nothing inside LinkedIn's interface that changes that.
This is the gap. The handle exists, it is sitting on an account that may not even be active, and the official product gives you no door to it. That door is what we open.
How does boost.inc get a handle that is already taken?
boost.inc secures contested and already-claimed LinkedIn vanity URLs through established internal relationships, then confirms the handle is clear for your profile, all without ever touching your login. This is access plus process, not a trick. We work through reps and direct relationships to free up or transfer the handle you want, and we tell you honestly when something is not reachable. We do not promise the impossible. We deliver outcomes the self-serve form structurally cannot, like recovering a short slug from a dormant account or clearing a handle so you can claim it.
Here is the part that matters for trust: we never ask for your password or login credentials, and we never need access to your account. These claims are handled through our internal relationships, not by logging in as you. You keep full control of your profile the entire time. When the handle is ready, you set it yourself in the same settings screen described above, or we confirm the transfer, depending on the case.
You can start a LinkedIn username claim with two things: the exact vanity URL you want and a link to your profile. We check the handle, quote you a fixed price before you pay, and move. See the full range on our services page.
What does the DIY route really cost you in time?
The honest answer is that the DIY route works perfectly for available handles and not at all for taken ones, and the second case is where people lose weeks.
For an available handle, LinkedIn documents the process clearly and it takes about a minute, as covered above. There is no waiting, no review, no uncertainty. If that is your situation, do it yourself and skip us entirely.
For a taken handle, the documented platform path ends immediately. LinkedIn's help center explains how to set an available URL and how public profile visibility works, but it documents no mechanism to claim, request, or recover a handle another account holds. In practice, people then try workarounds: messaging the holder cold, opening support tickets, waiting for the account to be deleted, or repeatedly checking whether the handle has freed up. The platform documents none of these as a route, and outcomes here are unpredictable. Cold messages to someone holding a desirable handle rarely get a reply. Support will not transfer a handle between members. Waiting on a dormant account to be deleted can take years and may never happen. You can spend weeks on this and end with nothing, because there is no documented process to follow and no timeline to rely on.
That is the contrast. The self-serve form is fast and certain for what it covers, and a dead end for what it does not. We turn the dead-end case around in 1 to 3 business days, with the price quoted before you pay, because we are not waiting on a form. We are working relationships that already exist.
Who is this for?
This is for founders and operators who want their LinkedIn link to read as cleanly as their company domain. It is for creators and public figures whose name is their brand and who want the handle that matches. It is for executives and investors who are vetted constantly and want a profile link that signals they were early and established. It is for agencies managing principal and client profiles who need premium handles secured properly. And it is for anyone whose ideal handle, their own name, a single letter, a short clean word, has been sitting on someone else's account for a decade. If the self-serve tool already gave you the handle you wanted, you do not need us. If it told you the handle is unavailable, that is exactly the case we handle.
You do not need to know where insiders find this. There are no forums to dig through and no marketplaces to vet. One desk, one clear quote, a real team. We are the legitimate first option for the handle the public tool will not give you.
What should you prepare before you start?
Have the exact handle you want decided, and a backup or two in case your first choice is genuinely unrecoverable. Have your profile link ready so we can confirm the right account. That is all. We do not need codes, recovery emails, two-factor access, or your password at any point. If anyone asks you for those to "claim" a handle, that is not how this works and not how we work.
If you want help thinking through which handle to target, or you are also looking at verification or press to round out your profile, we can scope that in the same conversation.
Ready to claim your handle?
Tell us the vanity URL you want and send your profile link, and we will check it, quote you before you pay anything, and secure it in 1 to 3 business days. Requests run through an account so you can track status and keep everything in one place. Create your account and submit your request to get started, or send the details directly through our request page.