So far, all the applications we know about for the 2026 round of the new gTLD program have been through the applicants' own announcements. The exhaustive list of strings won't be known until ICANN's Reveal Day - the only issue is that they haven't yet revealed when that will actually be. Jeff Neuman of JJN solutions wrote an open letter to ICANN on Monday1 insisting that the timeline be set out as soon as possible because the next ICANN AGM starts on 17 October in Bali which will cause a problem for the communication restrictions set out in the applicant guidebook2. Essentially if the Reveal Day is before or during the AGM, there is no point in applicants flying to Bali since they would not be allowed to discuss the strings they applied for.
It's unclear whether Neuman is actually applying for any strings, supporting the applications of others or just making a fulltime job of writing open letters to ICANN but the organisation finally got round to publishing his letter on their Correspondence page today after a blogpost yesterday announcing that they would (expect to) announce the dates of Reveal Day etc next week3:
Absent extraordinary circumstances, ICANN expects to hold Reveal Day no later than 14 October (as directed in the Applicant Guidebook to be no later than nine weeks after the close of the submission window). ICANN expects to announce the date for Reveal Day and subsequent 2026 milestones early next week. The announcement will include timelines for upcoming milestones including the String Replacement Period, String Confirmation Day, and the Community Input and Objections Period.
They also mentioned that of the 1663 applications confirmed as being submitted prior to the 12 August deadline that only 1616 of them will now continue but obviously did not detail the 47 applications which fell at the first hurdle.