I'm in the same situation now, i reg a free domain yesterday and is still in waiting for approval, what approval ?, when i check whois is fukin free to register by anybody, WTF! Still i have a hosting account with them and 1 week ago i regged two domains from the admin panel, i didn't know they were included as free if i keep the host with them, and they were ready in about 4 hours after i oredered them..
It seems this very long delay happens only to this new offer of free domain with free start hosting.. watever
I was so pissed i even posted on the other thread, my post was ment to be in the thread mentioned above by orangeblossoms, sorry don't know what to do now