diff --git a/populate_build.py b/populate_build.py
index 37ad0d9..a750260 100755
--- a/populate_build.py
+++ b/populate_build.py
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@
 
 
 logger = logging.getLogger()
+QUAY_REGISTRY_TAG_PAGE_SIZE = 100
+QUAY_TAG_FETCH_CONCURRENCY = 20
+QUAY_TAG_FETCH_PER_SECOND = 20
 
 
 class RepositoryKind(str, Enum):
@@ -53,16 +56,11 @@ class RepositoryListResponse(pydantic.BaseModel):
     next_page: Optional[str] = None
 
 
-class RepositoryTag(pydantic.BaseModel):
-    """Define the repository tag data of interest."""
+class TagListResponse(pydantic.BaseModel):
+    """Define the repository tag list data of interest."""
 
     name: str
-
-
-class SingleRepositoryResponse(Repository):
-    """Define the single repository data of interest."""
-
-    tags: Dict[str, RepositoryTag]
+    tags: List[str]
 
 
 class ContainerImageParser(HTMLParser):
@@ -111,14 +109,33 @@ async def fetch_all(
         params["namespace"] = repository
         async with httpx.AsyncClient(
             base_url=api_url, headers=headers, timeout=httpx.Timeout(12)
-        ) as client:
-            names = await cls._fetch_names(client=client, params=params)
+        ) as api_client, httpx.AsyncClient(
+            base_url=cls._registry_url(api_url),
+            headers=headers,
+            timeout=httpx.Timeout(12),
+        ) as registry_client:
+            names = await cls._fetch_names(client=api_client, params=params)
             images = await cls._fetch_tags(
-                client=client, repository=repository, names=names
+                client=registry_client, repository=repository, names=names
             )
         log_images(log_file=log_file, images=images)
         return images
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def _registry_url(api_url: str) -> str:
+        """Derive the registry API root from the Quay API root."""
+        url = httpx.URL(api_url)
+        api_path = url.path
+        if api_path.endswith("/api/v1/"):
+            registry_prefix = api_path[:-len("/api/v1/")]
+            registry_path = f"{registry_prefix}/v2/"
+        elif api_path.endswith("/api/v1"):
+            registry_prefix = api_path[:-len("/api/v1")]
+            registry_path = f"{registry_prefix}/v2/"
+        else:
+            registry_path = "/v2/"
+        return str(url.copy_with(path=registry_path, query=None, fragment=None))
+
     @classmethod
     async def _fetch_names(
         cls, client: httpx.AsyncClient, params: Dict[str, str]
@@ -171,8 +188,8 @@ async def _fetch_tags(
         client: httpx.AsyncClient,
         repository: str,
         names: List[str],
-        max_concurrency: int = 10,
-        max_per_second: int = 10,
+        max_concurrency: int = QUAY_TAG_FETCH_CONCURRENCY,
+        max_per_second: int = QUAY_TAG_FETCH_PER_SECOND,
     ) -> List[str]:
         """
         Fetch the image tags for each given container image.
@@ -181,21 +198,17 @@ async def _fetch_tags(
         limits.
 
         """
-        requests = [
-            client.build_request(method="GET", url=f"repository/{repository}/{name}")
-            for name in names
-        ]
         images = []
         with cls._progress_bar() as pbar:
-            task = pbar.add_task(description="Image Tags", total=len(requests))
+            task = pbar.add_task(description="Image Tags", total=len(names))
             async with aiometer.amap(
-                partial(cls._fetch_single_repository, client),
-                requests,
+                partial(cls._fetch_single_repository_tags, client, repository),
+                names,
                 max_at_once=max_concurrency,
                 max_per_second=max_per_second,
             ) as results:
-                async for repo in results:  # type: SingleRepositoryResponse
-                    images.extend((f"{repo.name}:{tag}" for tag in repo.tags))
+                async for repo_images in results:
+                    images.extend(repo_images)
                     pbar.update(task, advance=1)
         return images
 
@@ -220,13 +233,30 @@ def _progress_bar(cls) -> rprog.Progress:
         retry=tenacity.retry_if_exception_type(httpx.HTTPError),
         before=tenacity.before_log(logger, logging.DEBUG),
     )
-    async def _fetch_single_repository(
-        client: httpx.AsyncClient, request: httpx.Request
-    ) -> SingleRepositoryResponse:
-        """Fetch a single repository resource and parse the response."""
-        response = await client.send(request=request)
-        response.raise_for_status()
-        return SingleRepositoryResponse.parse_obj(response.json())
+    async def _fetch_single_repository_tags(
+        client: httpx.AsyncClient, repository: str, name: str
+    ) -> List[str]:
+        """Fetch all tags for a single repository from the registry tag endpoint."""
+        images = []
+        next_url = f"{repository}/{name}/tags/list"
+        params: Optional[Dict[str, int]] = {"n": QUAY_REGISTRY_TAG_PAGE_SIZE}
+        while next_url:
+            response = await client.get(next_url, params=params)
+            response.raise_for_status()
+            payload = TagListResponse.parse_obj(response.json())
+            images.extend((f"{name}:{tag}" for tag in payload.tags))
+            next_link = response.links.get("next")
+            next_url = QuayImageFetcher._normalize_next_link(client, next_link["url"]) if next_link else ""
+            params = None
+        return images
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _normalize_next_link(client: httpx.AsyncClient, next_url: str) -> str:
+        """Normalize relative Quay pagination links against the registry client base path."""
+        base_path = client.base_url.path
+        if next_url.startswith(base_path):
+            return next_url[len(base_path):]
+        return next_url.lstrip("/")
 
 
 class SingularityImageFetcher:
@@ -309,8 +339,14 @@ def get_new_images(
 
 def parse_denylist(filename: Path) -> List[str]:
     """Parse the list of images to skip."""
+    denylist = list()
     with filename.open() as handle:
-        return [entry for line in handle.readlines() if (entry := line.strip()) and not line.startswith('#')]
+        for line in handle.readlines():
+            entry = line.strip()
+            if entry and not line.startswith('#'):
+                denylist.append(entry)
+    logger.info(f"{len(denylist):,} entries found on the skip-list")
+    return denylist
 
 
 def generate_build_script(filename: Path, images: List[str]) -> None: