diff --git a/accounts.js b/accounts.js
index 3bd17ee..cb5ce18 100644
--- a/accounts.js
+++ b/accounts.js
@@ -168,6 +168,10 @@ const J = {
     return { ok: true, account: pub(acct) };
   },
   async listAll(limit) { return Object.values(this.db.byEmail).sort((a, b) => (b.created || 0) - (a.created || 0)).slice(0, limit).map(pub); },
+  // every account's identity, never a page of them: a lookup built from a capped list silently
+  // calls every older member unreachable (the admin table labelled 144 live sponsors 'dead link'
+  // once the site passed 500 accounts, Marty 2026-09-23)
+  async identities() { return Object.values(this.db.byEmail).map(a => ({ email: a.email, username: a.username || null, code: a.code || null, memberId: a.memberId || 0 })); },
   async setSponsorRef(e, ref) {
     const acct = this.db.byEmail[e];
     if (!acct) return { error: 'No such account.' };
@@ -333,6 +337,10 @@ const D = {
     return { ok: true, account: await this.byEmail(e) };
   },
   async listAll(limit) { const rows = await db.q('SELECT * FROM accounts ORDER BY created DESC LIMIT ?', [Number(limit) || 500]); return rows.map(rowPub); },
+  // identity columns for EVERY account, no limit: small enough to stay cheap at any size, and a
+  // sponsor lookup must never be built from a page of members (see the JSON note above)
+  async identities() { const rows = await db.q('SELECT email, username, code, member_id FROM accounts');
+    return rows.map(r => ({ email: r.email, username: r.username || null, code: r.code || null, memberId: Number(r.member_id) || 0 })); },
   async setSponsorRef(e, ref) {
     const r = await db.q('UPDATE accounts SET sponsor_ref=? WHERE email=?', [ref, e]);
     if (!r.affectedRows) return { error: 'No such account.' };
@@ -445,6 +453,7 @@ async function count() { return impl().count(); }
 // admin: newest-first account list, and re-pointing a member's sponsor (a
 // username, share code, or numeric member id: the same tokens join links use)
 async function listAll(limit = 500) { return impl().listAll(limit); }
+async function identities() { return impl().identities(); }
 async function setSponsorRef(email, ref) { return impl().setSponsorRef(normEmail(email), String(ref || '').trim().toLowerCase().slice(0, 40)); }
 
 // resolve a member's DIRECT sponsor account (the token they joined under)
@@ -469,7 +478,7 @@ async function getChatSettings(email) {
   return { available: a ? a.chatAvailable !== false : true, mutes: await impl().getMutes(String(email || '').toLowerCase()) };
 }
 
-module.exports = { init, signup, login, ensure, byEmail, byAddress, byCode, byUsername, byMemberId: id => impl().byMemberId(Number(id) || 0), listAll, setSponsorRef,
+module.exports = { init, signup, login, ensure, byEmail, byAddress, byCode, byUsername, byMemberId: id => impl().byMemberId(Number(id) || 0), listAll, identities, setSponsorRef,
   setUsername, setMemberId, namesForMembers, listByReferrer, downline, linkWallet, count,
   setLineBanner: (e, b, t) => impl().setLineBanner(String(e || '').toLowerCase(), b, t),
   setWallOffers: (e, j) => impl().setWallOffers(String(e || '').toLowerCase(), j),
diff --git a/server.js b/server.js
index 91c6df0..1410717 100644
--- a/server.js
+++ b/server.js
@@ -2998,8 +2998,10 @@ const server = http.createServer(async (req, res) => {
       if (!isAdmin(req)) return json(res, 401, { error: 'auth' });
       const members = await accounts.listAll(500);
       // resolve each sponsor token (username, share code or member #) to the sponsor's name
+      // the lookup covers EVERY account, not the page's slice: built from `members` it called every
+      // sponsor who joined before the newest 500 a dead link (144 of them, Marty 2026-09-23)
       const byTok = {};
-      for (const m of members) for (const t of [m.username, m.code, m.memberId ? String(m.memberId) : null]) if (t) byTok[String(t).toLowerCase()] = m;
+      for (const m of await accounts.identities()) for (const t of [m.username, m.code, m.memberId ? String(m.memberId) : null]) if (t) byTok[String(t).toLowerCase()] = m;
       for (const m of members) {
         const t = String(m.sponsorRef || '').toLowerCase();
         const sp = t ? byTok[t] : null;