No news is good news...or is it?

Blizzard reassured the community by stating that they are preparing the invitations for the upcoming closed beta.

The players we plan to invite to the closed beta test have a rather broad demographic, including PTR contest winners, BlizzCon attendees, some raiding groups, and other guilds and individuals as well. Since the expansion will contain a lot of content for a variety of play styles, we're definitely going to be accounting for that as we test the content.

Read the entire post on the official WoW General Forums.