I've been waiting on a domain that has been in pendingdelete for at least 10 days (should only be in PD max 5 days) It's with registerfly so I imagine that has much to do with it since htey are no longer an accredited registrar. Are domains with RF just going to sit in limbo till ICANN figures out what to do with them??
I saw that Icann wants to get another company to take all the domian names. This way people who own them can keep them and not loose the domian names they bought. I think it will be a while before it is all said and done and those domain names transfer over to new company and owners get first chance to renew any of them.